Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-09
LOCAL BREYITrEs.

Sheriff Drew will leave for San Quentin
! this morning, taking down ]. ]. o Hare
under sentence of is months imprisonment
| for burglary.
The Board of Supervisors went out to
the neighborhood of the County Hospital
yesterday morning to make personal ex-
, animation relative to certain road improve.
ments.
The case of ]. I. Azayedo, charged with
the murder of Frank Lewis on the Yolo
side of the river, about opposite Freeport,
has been set for trial at Woodland on the
18th inst.
In Department Two of the Superior
Court yesterday Joseph Louis Pitithomme,
native of France, was admitted to citizen
ship on the testimony of Reinard Flotio
and P. Kelly.
d.. Simmons went to San Francisco
Yesterday afternoon to make arrangements
for the appearance for two nights of Ed
win Booth, the renowned tragediap, at the
Metropolitan Theater early in April.
A new lodge of Knights and Ladies of
Honor is being organized in this city, and
an open meeting will be held this evening
at o'clock, in Changers Hail. for the BEN
eft of all who desire to join the charter
membership.
A gentleman who came up from Los An
geles yesterday stated that th.re had been
over thirty cases of smallpox there-pos-
sibly forty, for in some instances the exist
ence of the disease was concealed. Only
three or four deaths had occurred.
The Stockton Baseball Club Manager has
telegraphed Manager Stafford, of the Atlas,
that his club will not play the latter in
Stockton next Sunday, as had been ar
ranged. No reason was given, but it is
probable that the Windmill City BOYS
arrived at the conclusion that the Atlas
were little too heavy for them
The weather was delightfully."- pleasant in
Sacramento yesterday, as it has been for
several days, but the clearness of the at
mosphere was very remarkable, enabling
those who desired to get very fine views of
the foothills and snow-covered mountains,
and the intervening country, from the,
dome of the Capitol and other elevations.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature yesterday was 6So and 41o, be-
ing the warmest day since last November.
The wind yesterday morning early was
blowing lightly from the south, but during
the forenoon and afternoon it was blowing
fresh to brisk from the northwest, while at
night no wind was perceptble, it being
calm. The weather throughout the day
was clear.
Assessor Frost has appointed NJ D.
Eldred as one of his deputies. his business
being the collection of Chinese poll taxes.
Yesterday morning, while he was engaged
in collecting, a Chinaman whom he had
accosted refused TO give his name and ran
off at a rapid gait. Eldred pursued and
captured him after sharp run. To avoid
imprisonment he paid his tax, received his
receipt and went his way, a very disguised
Celestial.
The criminal calendar of the Superior
Court was concluded yesterday, closing
with the case of John P. Humphreys,
charged with petit larceny, second offense,
the Jury returning verdict of guilty, with
a recommendation for leniency on the part
of the Court in passing sentence. The first
larceny charged against him was that of a
hat for which be served thirty days in the
county Jail. The later case consisted in
stealing blankets belonging to l.. S.
Aldridge. Sentence will be pronounced
next Friday.
Bill Boone, the colored man, who came
over from Woodland Monday morning and
made threats against the life of his wife
and man with whom he suspected her OF
being too familiar, has returned to Wood
land without giving the Coroner job. He
and his wife met at the station-house Mon
day evening, and she pronounced her dec
laration of independence, declaring that
she would never live with him again. She
expressed herself so plainly that she could
not be misunderstood, and he concluded to
take the advice of the officers and go home
without making trouble.